Printing problems - Gnucash 2.2.1/MacOS 10.4.10

[Henry M. Benson]

Forgot to mention: printing a test page from CUPS admin on
http://localhost:631/ works fine.

TIA,
Henry

Henry M. Benson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble printing reports or checks using GnuCash 2.2.1/MacOS 
> 10.4.10,
> installed via MacPorts.
> 
> I get the print dialog, select a printer (I have three; it doesn't 
> matter which), and
> I get a popup box titled "Error Printing" that contains only 
> "successful_ok".  After
> a few tries the text turns to "too many failed attempts".
> 
> Some debugging, googling and poking at cups yields a possibly-offending 
> line
> in /var/log/cups/access_log:
> 
> localhost - - [24/Aug/2007:16:28:16 -0400] "POST 
> /printers/EPSON_Stylus_COLOR_860 HTTP/1.1" 400 0
> 
> which if I'm correct means that GnuCash is trying to print a zero-length 
> file, resulting
> in a "Bad Request" error from the POST.
> 
> Any suggestions on where to go next?  I'm unix-literate but not familiar 
> with
> the printing stuff.
> 
> btw I couldn't print in 2.2.0 either, but I upgraded to 2.2.1 before 
> starting
> to debug.  1.8.<latest> with MacOS 10.3.<latest> worked fine on the 
> exact same hardware, if that means anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> Henry
>